Eric Rohmer

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Eric Rohmer, the French critic and filmmaker who was one of the founding figures of the internationally influential movement that became known as the French New Wave, and the director of more than 50 films for theaters and television, including the Oscar-nominated "My Night at Maud's" (1969), died on Jan. 11, 2010. He was 89.

Aesthetically, Mr. Rohmer was perhaps the most conservative member of the group of aggressive young critics who purveyed their writings for publications like Arts and Les Cahiers du Cinéma into careers as filmmakers beginning in the late 1950s.

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August 15, 2006, Tuesday

The most famous line of criticism about the films of Eric Rohmer came not from a movie critic but from a movie, Arthur Penn's ''Night Moves,'' in which a character returns from seeing ''Claire's Knee'' and announces that it was ''like watching paint...